I am currently seeking work as a Mainframe Programmer / Analyst in the Halifax Nova Scotia area. I was previously employed at Keane Canada as a Principal Consultant and have 20 years of progressive experience with several large organisations within the Maritimes using an IBM Mainframe environment. I have worked on development projects and as part of the Application Support Group at two large Telecommunications companies in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. I have 7 years experience in the financial services industry working with systems to handle retail investment products and 6 years experience with a large retail petroleum products company working on systems to handle on-line plant maintenance and inventory control. My duties have included Lead Analyst; Business and End-User Requirements Analysis; External, Internal and Functional Design Specifications on medium scale development projects. As well I have extensive experience using DB/2 and IMS databases in a CICS and IMS/DC environment and extensive use of on-line CSP (IBM’s 4’th Generation Language) and COBOL. I was a member of a large project team and, was involved in the analysis and coding of COBOL programs that used a Oracle Database on a UNIX server for a client server based system, to be used at the clients Call Center for customer contact information management.